Knowing my luck I won't be able to play it until it's in Omega and all over :P

I still can't get Nvidia to work on Ubuntu... can't make a 17.04 live USB... can't get Mass Effect which worked ok on Windows 7 to work properly on Windows 8.1 even with Windows XP SP3 compatibility... I'm cursed when it comes to playing games sigh.

Indeed. The question was legitimate because I used dd accidentally on my 500gb hard drive wiping out first 512 MB. I didn't want it to happen again and wrote an answer preventing that. Plus my two SSD's.

If they don't want to protect their permanent mass storage that is their business but why prevent others from having protection by downvoting and telling other people "nothing to see here, look the other way"?

I am just curious if anyone knows really, what are the criteria for the "Hot meta posts" in the side bar.
I guess it is automatic but what is it based on? Views? Votes? Activity?
I noticed downvoted questions never get on there, even if they are very active.
So, what makes a Hot Meta Post?

don't think I told you, I was about to close the deal on that flat, bailed out once a friend told me the place has some hard to deal with neighborhood, I'm about to visit another one today, just as the rain is threatening to pour :p @cl-netbox

@cl-netbox I know what you mean, there will be no perfect place, but from what I heard from that friend (and another one in the room confirmed) that place was quite trashy, even though the flat looked good. I noticed there are lots of people selling there too, so maybe it wasn't the one yet

I'm a bit confident I can find some good stuff out there, just need to be patient. That flat I'm about to see sounds good

@cl-netbox I was about to start getting documentation ready the next day, but my friend (which lived in that district) was so persuasive about me not closing the deal, that it wasn't good, that I couldn't take it forward after being warned like that you know?

I voted to close this question as it appears to be unavailable for currently supported releases and therefor unlikely to be of use. It has no upvoted/accepted answers. I also stumbled across this one which appears to have been useful for a period of time but doesn't appear to be useful now. I als...

@Hizqeel Because I upvoted too many (good - IMO) posts of some AU members and they upvoted many of mine, all those votes were unvalidated by the system ... that happened to many users in the middle last year ... though I was the one who lost most.

@Rinzwind I just tried statically linking the library, to see if maybe the library itself wasn't handling the leaks outside the process, I got tons of other warnings on valgrind, but no memory leaks (actually, no allocs and no leaks, which is weird)

the warnings are probably because statically linking it most likely requires some other tweaks

I once saw a guy, listening to 30 minutes of (fast) piano music. He played it back without a single mistake, and, from the last to the first note. I think in principle, we can all do that. We do stuff much more complicated. A sane mind only has no motivation whatsoever to do that --> you can't because you don't see how it is useful.

@TheXed Not exactly. The pay was crap, so they couldn't keep talent (retail). And because of the talent deficit, the talented ones had to 250% produce in order for the total store to look good. So, be strong and your area gets behind and you're in a perpetual state of catch up instead of just do this one thing. It's your job. This is what we're paying. Just do your job. thinking about heading back across the country for a job that did exactly that

Well, that is something. I think one of the things that burned me out on retail despite it being particularly monkey work was that it didn't matter what you got done, more load got shifted to you, so you couldn't power through a hard spot and catch a break.